Daily album battle · No. 8 · Sunday, 25 October 2026 · Final result

On Every Street vs Badmotorfinger

Dire Straits against Soundgarden. Both released in 1991. Badmotorfinger won with 100% of 2 votes.

Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden, album coverWinner
BadmotorfingerSoundgarden
1991 · A&M Records
100%
0%On Every Street
100%Badmotorfinger

Badmotorfinger won with 100% of 2 votes.

How the vote swung (UTC)
On Every Street aheadBadmotorfinger ahead
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Badmotorfinger beat On Every Street 100–0 in Riffology's daily album battle

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Tale of the tape

On paper: 4–3
On Every Street
Badmotorfinger
9 October 1991
Released
8 October 1991
Vertigo
Label
A&M Records
Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler
Produced by
Terry Date, Soundgarden
AIR Studios, AIR (London, UK)
Recorded at
Studio D (Sausalito), Bear Creek (Woodinville) +1
November 1990 – May 1991
Recorded
Early 1991
1:00:22 · 12 tracks
Running time
57:50 · 12 tracks
6
Singles
3
No. 1
UK chart peak
No. 39
No. 12
US Billboard 200 peak
No. 39
Platinum
US certification
2× Platinum
2× Platinum
UK certification
Gold
5.0k
Listeners
7.3k
105k
Wikipedia readers, last year
177k

Charts and certifications from Wikipedia, credits from MusicBrainz and Wikidata, listeners from ListenBrainz. A dot marks the stronger number.

The case for each

On Every Street by Dire Straits

On Every Street, released in October 1991, is the last of the six studio albums Dire Straits made. The British band had begun with their self-titled debut in 1978, and this record closed a run that took in Communiqué, Making Movies, Love Over Gold and Brothers in Arms.

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Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden

Badmotorfinger is Soundgarden's third studio album, released through A&M Records in October 1991. It followed Ultramega OK and Louder Than Love, and it was the first record the band made with bassist Ben Shepherd, who joined as sessions began in early 1991.

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Previous battles

Battle champions

Albums with the most battle wins.

  1. 1
    Rage Against the MachineRage Against the Machine
    1–0
  2. 21–0
  3. 3
    DoolittlePixies
    1–0
  4. 4
    BadmotorfingerSoundgarden
    1–0
  5. 51–0
  6. 61–0
  7. 71–0

How the daily album battle works

Every day at midnight UTC the vault draws two well-known studio albums, close in popularity, era and style, and puts them head to head. Everyone sees the same battle. You get one vote, and the result is shown once you've voted. Voting closes at midnight UTC, when the next battle starts and the result goes into the record books for good.

No album battles twice in the same year, and every finished battle keeps its own page, so the arguments can carry on.